Omaha daily bee., 1887-04-16

cough medicine He had close call for
his life, but will probably recover
Paul Duffin, butcher OF Bancroft, on
Tuesday came to the Vincent farm about
five miles from Ponca to butcher COW.
Preparatory thereto he erected a plat.
form few feet above the ground, got
onto it and bounced up and down to try
the strength of it, when suddenly a board
broke, one end of which struck him on
the back of his head and killed him in
stantly.
Nebraska City's products comprise al.
cohol, bacon, balusters, barrels, beer
boilers, bread, breakers, brick, brooms,
buggies, candies, canned goods. cigars,
castings, coal tar, crackers, cultivators,
engines, flour, gas, grasshopper plows,
hams, harness, hayrakes, head cheese,
harrows, iron fences, hominy, stairway
and fronts, keys, lard, mineral waters,
meal, mill products generally, holdings,
oat meal, saddles, sashes, sausage, slip
measures, starch, tierces, turner's, wag.
ons, windmills, wines and whisky.
The Plattsmouth journal says rumors
are current there that Wing Lee, the
shirt mangler who disappeared Satur-
day, was foully dealt WITH land that
the Celestials who came down from
Omaha and took possession of his place
are Acknowledged rascals who may know
more than they tell regarding his going
away. MIR. Golding thinks the idea that
postcrous, as he always had lots of cash
ut hand, always paid his bills and had
been doing big business here ever since
he came. Besides he left great deal of
property IN his place which he could
easily have converted into cash had he
been leaving town to stay. 1t is posi-.
BILE that " ing has been made away with
in Omaha. and that these two slant-eyed
celestials came down here to complete y
job begun there"
Iowa Items.
The police force of Burlington are to
be supplied with new uniforms.
The United States grand jury at Du-
buque found thirty-two indictments.
The Miles Creamery ASSOCIATION, of
Floyd county, filed Its articles of incor
poratlon.
oOn March 81 there were 693 prisoners
in the two state penal institutes, against
720 the year previous.
Several farmers around Iowa Falls
make considerable quantities of syrup
from their groves OF soft maple.
The other night beaver weighing
forty-iive pounds was caught in the West
Nishnabotna river near Hamburg.
Northern Iowa farmers are this year
said to be putting in only sufficient wheat
tor their own use. Oats will lead in small
grain, and u larger acreage thau usual of
corn will be planted.
The last five indictments against A. L.
Tullis, formerly auditor of Madison
county, have just been tried. He was
charged with embezzlement and was ac-
quilted on each charge.
John p. Irish. formerly of Iowa City,
has been placed at the head of Il treasury
commission to select and purchase prop
crty IN San Francisco on which to erect q
postoffice and custom house, for which
| $50O,000 was appropriated.
Dakota.
The new mayor of Fargo wants electric
lights turned on to his administration.
Hillsboro's sixth elevator, with 10000
| bushels capacity, will be finished May /.
Kimball claims the champion hose
coupler of South Dakota. His name is
Waugh, late of Charles Mix county, but
| now resident there.
The opening of the school Of mines at
Rapid City has already proven a valu-
able advertisement for the Black Hills as
a mineral.bearng country.
Spring water is put up into five and ten
gallon casks nc Sioux Falls and sold to
| consumers. They are willing to pay q
reasonably amount any time for drink
| ing out of a cask.
A few of the periodical rock sharpS
have put in m appearance at Deadwood.
They always como in the spring and
hang out during the sunny portion of the
| day at the bank corners. They are
loaded with specimen ore for tenderfeet
and grubstakers, and always take pleas
ure in showing their samples. Free gold
specimens, horn, native and ruby silver
worth thousands of dollars to the ton, are
| as common ut this season of tho year as
gypsum at Rapid.